Nafees Meah, regional representative for South Asia for the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute, calls genetically modified crops “a weapon in our armory” to address global food security; he says the world is going to get warmer with climate change, so people will have to develop crop varieties resistant to it, including GM crops.
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